Bring out yer AROS bootlogs!

[falemagn]

Want to help AROS development but don't have programming knowledges? Don't worry, here's a way for you to contribute to the AROS effort.

If you have two computers at home, one of which must by force be a PC IBM AT compatible, please try out this  floppy image and follow the instructions below

1) Connect the two machines trough a null-modem cable, using the COM1 port on the PC side.
2) Start a terminal program on one machine and set it to 9600 bps, 8 data bits, No parity, 1 stop bit. Start logging.
3) Boot up the AROS image on the PC and let the boot log flow trough your serial cable.
4) When finished, please email the log to aros-bootlogs@lists.sourceforge.net

The longer you keep AROS running, the more informations will be logged, the more you'll help AROS development.

Thank you for your support!
Fabio Alemagna
AROS Developer

[tonyw]

It's probably a silly question, but what am I do to with a "img" file? I guess it has to be written to a floppy, but just as an MS-DOS file? And then how do I make the floppy bootable?

tony

[falemagn]

It's a floppy image, meaning that it's just a file representation of the whole floppy disk. You have to put it back track by track on the floppy. If you are using linux, you should know how to do it (otherwise I don't think you would be able to use linux at all whilst if you use an MS operating system, you need utilities such as RawWrite or similar.

Fabio Alemagna

[Coder]

I am going to test out the floppy version on my main PC to see if it works. And then I will see if I can get to of my old PC's here back to live. One might work wich is a 486 Olivetti, but I am not sure of that would be of any help. Otherwise I could set something up at my work.

Coder

[Coder]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but can you not write a log file to disk on the machine that is running Aros?

Coder

[falemagn]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but can you not write a log file to disk on the machine that is running Aros?

No, at the moment you can't.

Fabio Alemagna

[JetRacer]

This is almost funny. One mirror (Telia) is the Swedish phone company (hires out the net since the de-regulation). It is listed as a Virginia/US mirror.

Sometimes... .

[Housey]

hmm well I used rawrite but the my PC didn't want to boot from the image  :-x

[falemagn]

Have you decompressed the file first?

Is the floppy in  a good state?

Fabio Alemagna